| Title: |
Lt. Col. Billie Hughes
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
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| Collection: |
Civil Rights Documentation Project
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| Description: |
Interview conducted on July 7, 1993, with Lt. Col. Billie Hughes of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. Hughes was born in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He grew up in Pike County, Mississippi. After working for the railroad industry, Hughes became a Mississippi highway patrolman in 1964. He served as a trooper during the height of racial tensions in Mississippi during the sixties
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| Extent: |
1 page
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| URL: |
http://anna.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/ohhughesbp.html
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| Restrictions: |
The transcript is presented here for reference purposes only. Interviews in this collection are protected by copyright.
PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST BE REQUESTED from the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1993 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hughes, Billie
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Transportation worker
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| Document date: |
07-Jul-1993
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| Interviewer: |
Derr, Reid
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| Organizations discussed: |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; White Citizens Council
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| Historical events discussed: |
Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-
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| Locations discussed: |
Mississippi; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements--United States; Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; Mississippi; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; North America; Oral history; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-; United States; White Citizens Council
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Activism
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0023585-25102
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